Fast News Search

Use Bright Data’s Fast SERP service to retrieve compact Google News search results in real time, available to selected enterprise customers.

Bright Data offers a fast SERP service for Google News, available to selected enterprise customers only. This service responds with a compact JSON to power real-time applications that need up-to-date news results. To gain access, please contact your Bright Data account manager.

Google News endpoints

Google offers two endpoints for news search results:

news.google.com and https://www.google.com/search/q=[searchTerm]&tbm=nws

Bright Data offers Fast SERP results only for: https://www.google.com/search/q=[searchTerm]&tbm=nws . Bright Data will provide results for news.google.com , but with in our regular SERP.

Fast News Search Request

Fast SERP for Google News works best with the native proxy interface. If you need a REST API interface for your architecture, one can be provided.

For Fast SERP, both the x-unblock-data-format: parsed_lightrequest header and the brd_json=1 URL parameter are required. Omitting either will result in an unexpected response format.

Native proxy request

curl -i --proxy fserp.brd.superproxy.io:33335 \
  --proxy-user brd-customer-<CUSTOMER>-zone-<ZONE>:<PASSWORD> \
  -k \
  -H 'x-unblock-data-format: parsed_light' \
  "https://www.google.com/search?q=earthquake&tbm=nws&brd_json=1"

Response Format

A successful response returns a JSON object with the following top-level fields.

Choosing image format

For news articles search results in Fast SERP, Bright Data offers to receive the data either as embedded Base64 binary code or as a URL. The default is Base64.

In order to get the image links use this header: -H 'x-unblock-img-format: link'

Example:

curl  --proxy fserp.brd.superproxy.io:33335 --proxy-user [username]:[password] -k -H 'x-unblock-data-format: parsed_light' -H 'x-unblock-img-format: link' "https://www.google.com/search?q=earthquake&tbm=nws&brd_json=1" --output nws_links.json

news array

The primary array of individual news results.

Field	Type	Description
link	string	URL of the news article
title	string	Headline of the article
source	string	Name of the news publisher
source_logo	string	URL of the publisher’s logo image or Base64 image binary code
date	string	Publication date/time of the article
image	string	URL of the article’s thumbnail image or Base64 image binary code
global_rank	integer	Rank position of the result on the page

article_sets array

Grouped article clusters organized by topic, each containing a heading label and an items array of articles.

article_sets is not guaranteed to appear in every response. Your implementation should handle its absence gracefully.

Example response with image links

{
  "organic": [],
  "news": [
    {
      "link": "https://www.example-news.com/world/earthquake-latest",
      "title": "Major Earthquake Strikes Pacific Region",
      "source": "Example News",
      "source_logo": "https://www.example-news.com/logo.png",
      "date": "2 hours ago",
      "image": "https://www.example-news.com/images/earthquake.jpg",
      "global_rank": 1
    },
    {
      "link": "https://www.another-outlet.com/earthquake-update",
      "title": "Rescue Operations Underway After Earthquake",
      "source": "Another Outlet",
      "source_logo": "https://www.another-outlet.com/logo.png",
      "date": "3 hours ago",
      "image": "https://www.another-outlet.com/images/rescue.jpg",
      "global_rank": 2
    }
  ],
  "article_sets": [
    {
      "heading": "Latest Updates",
      "items": [
        {
          "link": "https://www.example-news.com/world/earthquake-latest",
          "title": "Major Earthquake Strikes Pacific Region",
          "source": "Example News",
          "date": "2 hours ago"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Supported parameters

gl

Two-letter country code used to define the country of search

hl

Two-letter language code used to define the page languages